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Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

In digital pathology, precise nuclei segmentation is pivotal yet challenged by the diversity of tissue types, staining protocols, and imaging conditions. Recently, the segment anything model (SAM) revealed overwhelming performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Zhen Chen , Qing Xu , Xinyu Liu , Yixuan Yuan

The remarkable capabilities of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for tackling image segmentation tasks in an intuitive and interactive manner has sparked interest in the design of effective visual prompts. Such interest has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jorge Quesada , Zoe Fowler , Mohammad Alotaibi , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

In this study, we propose NOVO (NO text, Visual-Only prompts), a novel framework that bridges vision-language models (VLMs) and segmentation models through visual-only prompts. Unlike prior approaches that feed text-derived SEG token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kyung-Yoon Yoon , Yeong-Jun Cho

Amodal instance segmentation, which aims to detect and segment both visible and invisible parts of objects in images, plays a crucial role in various applications including autonomous driving, robotic manipulation, and scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei-En Tai , Yu-Lin Shih , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Recent progress in medical vision-language models (VLMs) has achieved strong performance on image-level text-centric tasks such as report generation and visual question answering (VQA). However, achieving fine-grained visual grounding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Savas Ozdemir , Ying Zhang , Yang Yang , Wei Shao , Kuang Gong

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized image segmentation through its innovative prompt-based approach, yet the critical role of prompt engineering in its success remains underexplored. This paper presents the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yidong Jiang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits promise in generic object segmentation and offers potential for various applications. Existing methods have applied SAM to surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) by tuning SAM-based frameworks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Qiuxia Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that introduced revolutionary advancements in natural image segmentation. However, its performance remains sub-optimal when delineating the intricate structure of biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Xiangru Li , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent zero-shot generalization to new language tasks. However, effective utilization of LLMs for zero-shot visual question-answering (VQA) remains challenging, primarily due to the modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jiaxian Guo , Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Anthony Meng Huat Tiong , Boyang Li , Dacheng Tao , Steven C. H. Hoi

Robust and accurate segmentation of scenes has become one core functionality in various visual recognition and navigation tasks. This has inspired the recent development of Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Yun Xing , Naoto Yokoya , Shijian Lu

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

Segment Anything Model (SAM), known for its remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities, has garnered significant attention in the community. Nevertheless, its performance is challenged when dealing with what we refer to as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guangqian Guo , Pengfei Chen , Yong Guo , Huafeng Chen , Boqiang Zhang , Shan Gao

This paper presents MirrorSAM2, the first framework that adapts Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) to the task of RGB-D video mirror segmentation. MirrorSAM2 addresses key challenges in mirror detection, such as reflection ambiguity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mingchen Xu , Yukun Lai , Ze Ji , Jing Wu

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment objects from previously unseen classes using only a limited number of labeled examples. In this paper, we introduce Label Anything, a novel transformer-based architecture designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pasquale De Marinis , Nicola Fanelli , Raffaele Scaringi , Emanuele Colonna , Giuseppe Fiameni , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Topojoy Biswas , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan